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Show Us Your Car: 1951 Siata is pure Italian fun

CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. -- Okay, so it's not the Ferrari he had set out ot buy, but Harry Hart of Indian Wells, Calif., couldn't be more happy at owning a Siata. A What? The name doesn't exactly roll off the

CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. -- Okay, so it's not the Ferrari he had set out ot buy, but Harry Hart of Indian Wells, Calif., couldn't be more happy at owning a Siata.

A What? The name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue even for diehard auto enthusiasts. The Italian brand is decidedly off the radar. But for Hart, it represented a fun alternative to owning Ferrari. Ferrari's were expensive when he went hunting for a car back in the 1970s, as they are today.

Hart says his 1951 Siata Gran Sport gives him plenty of reason to tinker and that one day, he hopes to pass the car on to his son. His has four-cylinder engine, a contrasts to the V-8s -- or 8Vs, as Siata called them -- that would come a few years later.